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master's cottage, wet and tired, and coil himself 

 up before a fire, probably of a few sticks, and 

 be ready to renew his toil the next day. 



These sheep-dogs have a wonderful degree of 

 intelligence. When I had a small farm, I was 

 in the habit of having two hundred sheep sent 

 me from the Cheviot Hills, some two hundred 

 and fifty miles from my farm in Surrey. On 

 asking the shepherd who brought them the first 

 year how he had got on, he said he had but a 

 young dog, and found much difficulty by the 

 sheep taking wrong turnings, going up lanes 

 and by-roads. The next year I asked him 

 the same question. He told me that he had 

 been accompanied by the same dog, who recol- 

 lected all the false turnings the sheep had made 

 the year before, and had gone before them and 

 kept them in the proper road, so that he had no 

 difficulty with them. Here was recollection, 

 intellect, and a certain degree of reason as well 

 as instinct. 



The Highland shepherds are firmly convinced 

 that their dogs perfectly understand what is said. 

 Indeed, Hogg, the celebrated Ettrick Shepherd, 

 related to me one or two instances in proof of 

 this, which, I am sorry to say, I have forgotten ; 



